While You Loved Me

Author's Note: Yet another sleepless night thanks to my little boy moving around nonstop…got to love being 6 months pregnant ha ha! I wouldn't trade it for anything though, I love my children, all three of them…my future son included. Anyway, here we are again folks. If any of you know the Notebook then you know what is coming up in this chapter and I am sorry that it has to be that way but you know how it goes. For those that don't know the story, enjoy the ride!

Disclaimer: You guys know that I am not Stephanie Meyer, Nicholas Sparks or Rascal Flatts so it goes without saying that I don't own anything but my idea to combine the best of both worlds as far as characters and story are concerned. ENJOY!

Chapter 4

Junior's POV

There was a fire in Bella's very soul when she stormed into her parents' house and saw them standing there, her father with a look of concern and worry on his face and her mother with the same snobby smirk she always wore. She didn't know what possessed her to yell at her parents.

"How DARE you?" Bella screamed at her parents "You had the POLICE come looking for me?"

"Isabella you left, honey, without saying a word to anyone. We were worried." Her father said in a concerned tone.

"I was FINE! WE were FINE!" she groaned, frustrated and furious.

"Isabella, come. Let's talk." Her mother said leading her toward her father's office.

"NO! Whatever you have to say, you can say in front of Emmett." Bella challenged.

"Bella, honey, just go with your mother. I will be in there shortly." Charlie said softly and with a huff, Bella followed her mother out of the room and away from the man she loved more than life itself.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Swan. I had no idea she didn't tell you where she was going. We lost track of time, I never intended for her to be out so late." Emmett pleaded for his girlfriend "I will take full responsibility for tonight."

"Emmett, please sit here until I am done talking with my daughter. I will come to you when we are finished." Charlie said before turning to join his wife and daughter in his office. Emmett feared the worst. Meanwhile in her father's office, Bella was having it out with her parents.

"Why did ya'll do this?" Bella asked, trying to keep calm.

"Because you have no business out at all hours of the night with that…BOY!" Renee snapped.

"So this is about Emmett?" Bella said "Emmett has been nothing but good to me, mother. What is so wrong with wanting to spend my last week with him?"

"Because he's TRASH, Isabella. TRASH! Not for you!" Renee spat and Bella groaned loudly in frustration.

"What would you know about love mother? I love him and he loves me! You wouldn't know about that! You don't look at Daddy the way Emmett looks at me, you don't talk, you don't touch, you don't kiss. So tell me, what do you know what's good for me?" she screamed at her mother.

"Bella honey, we aren't saying he's not treating you well. All your mother is saying is that maybe Emmett's just not for you." Charlie said calmly trying to be the voice of reason.

Emmett heard everything that her parents had to say and felt that it may be best if he left. He stood from his seat in the front room and walked out of the door, fully intending on making a clean break for it as much as it pained him to do so. Upon hearing the front door shut, Bella took off after him.

"Emmett, WAIT!" she hollered as he got to the door of his truck "Where are you going?"

"I think it's best if I leave." He said, trying not to let his emotions get the best of him.

"What do you mean? Is it what my mother said? She doesn't know what we have…she doesn't understand." Bella pleaded "Please, just stay. Let things cool off."

"Bells, your mom was right. We're not meant for each other. We come from different worlds, you and me." Emmett said.

"Different worlds? What worlds? We are both living, breathing humans here in the SAME world." She said.

"Bella, you don't get it. I will never live up to your parents expectations…I'm not rich. I never have been rich and I never WILL be rich." Emmett said "I think it's best if I go and just say goodbye now before we say things we don't mean."

"Are you breaking up with me?" Bella asked, tears threatening to fall from her eyes. She took Emmett's silence and sad look as a yes.

"I think that we should finish out the week and then see where it goes." Emmett said.

"Why wait? Huh? If this is going to end, why not just end it now since that's what you are going to do anyway?" Bella said getting angry and upset. She shoved him into his truck door. "Come on, Emmett just DO IT!" she screamed "DO IT!" she shoved him once again and Emmett just got into his truck and started the engine. He didn't want to hurt her but he didn't want to say anything that would hurt her worse either.

"I do love you, Bella." Emmett said with a frown.

"Wait! You're really leaving?" Bella said realizing that this wasn't just another one of their many fights. "We're just fighting right? We're not really breaking up are we? We'll cool off and go back to normal in the morning right?"

"Goodbye Bella" Emmett said sadly before driving off and out of her life, though it hurt him to do so. That night, Bella cried herself to sleep and Emmett…well he wasn't much better, drowning himself in moonshine at Jasper's house.

The next morning, Bella woke up to the sound of cars outside. She looked outside to see her father's wait staff loading bags into the back of their town car. Bella was confused as to what was going on so she rushed downstairs, finding her mother sitting in the kitchen drinking her morning tea.

"What's going on? Why are they loading our things in the car?" Bella asked her mother.

"We are leaving Gatlinburg today, it's for the best." Renee replied sipping her tea.

"No, what? Wait! Just WAIT!" Bella said taking off outside and grabbing her bicycle.

Bella rushed as fast as she could to the farm where Emmett and Jasper worked only to find that Emmett wasn't there, but Jasper was.

"Bella, what are you doing here?" Jasper asked.

"Is Emmett here? I really need to talk to him!" Bella pleaded with Jasper.

"He's not here, he just left for a run for the boss. Bella, I don't think it's a good idea if you talk to him though, darlin'. He was a mess last night over everything, it's really over." Jasper said, trying to soften the blow but it still hurt to hear him say it.

"No, it's not. No, IT'S NOT!" Bella cried.

"I'm sorry, darlin'. I'll tell him you came though, when are you leaving?" he asked.

"Today…now!" Bella said, tears streaming down her face. "Can you please just tell him something for me? Can you tell him that it wasn't over for me? Tell him that I love him? Can you do that for me Jazz?"

"I'll tell him, darlin'." Jasper said with a slight frown.

Just then Bella's parent pulled up and honked the horn, yelling for her to get in. Bella huffed and got in the car with her parents and left Gatlinburg for good. Just as Bella was driving away, Emmett showed up on the farm and Jasper told him what was said. He rushed over to the Swan estate to find that it was completely abandoned and locked up. He collapsed by the gate and sobbed.

Every day for the next year, Emmett wrote Bella, sending the letters to her home in Atlanta. After an entire year without a reply, he quit writing, knowing then that it really was over, and that hurt worst that driving away the night he ended things with her.